Tennessee making (bad) news

Seems the Republican-created teacher evaluation system in Tennessee is causing headaches, drawing the attention of NPR and the New York Times.

The key line from the NYT story:

In the end, it’s all about distrust: not trusting principals to judge teachers, not trusting teachers to educate children.

That pretty much sums up the problem with all state testing/teacher evaluation standards -- we need to just put good people in place and let them do their jobs. But we're not willing to do what it takes to get good people in the first place (pay them).